Dissertation - Postgraduate Diplomahttp://hdl.handle.net/10523/6012017-11-22T02:06:44Z2017-11-22T02:06:44ZThe thin end of the wedge : the 1970 South African tour controversyMcKegg, William Amoshttp://hdl.handle.net/10523/73862017-06-19T14:02:52Z2017-06-19T03:18:18ZThe thin end of the wedge : the 1970 South African tour controversy
1990
McKegg, William Amos
In 1981 as a bewildered third former I marched up Queen Street in Auckland to protest against the Springbok tour.
At the time I knew it was for the better good, yet the next day at rugby practise I had trouble explaining why. Sporting contacts with South Africa has been a source of curiosity ever since, hence my reason for choosing a South African tour debate. 1970 was chosen for the simple reason that other major controversial tours have been done and, as it happened the 1970 issue turned out to be a crucial year for New Zealand and South African sporting relations. [Extract from Preface]
2017-06-19T03:18:18ZThe black monk and the blue mystic : the writings and monochromatic paintings of Ad Reinhardt and Yves KleinLeiby, Bora Kimhttp://hdl.handle.net/10523/68962016-11-07T13:02:44Z2016-11-07T02:12:41ZThe black monk and the blue mystic : the writings and monochromatic paintings of Ad Reinhardt and Yves Klein
2011
Leiby, Bora Kim
This dissertation is an examination of the monochromatic paintings and associated writings of Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) and Yves Klein (1928-1962). Since its inception in 1918, the modern monochromatic painting has continued to fascinate, puzzle, and even upset viewers. Despite this, artists continue to explore this form. It would be unrealistic to assume that there is one artistic ideology that motivates all monochromatic painters. Trying to uncover all varying ideologies would be too difficult and require research based on the subjective writings of critics and historians. In an attempt to understand the monochrome from the artist's perspective I have analysed texts written by the artists regarding their own artwork. Not only did Reinhardt and Klein paint monochromatic images at the same time in history, but both documented their creative processes in writing. I have examined two edited collections of texts by these artists: Art-as-Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt (1975) and the English translation of Overcoming the Problematics of Art: The Writings of Yves Klein (2007). The body of this dissertation uncovers similarities and differences in regards to formal aspects, functional roles, and sources of inspiration associated with these paintings. These include artistic rules regarding colour and line, the intended function of art in life, and a shared affinity for Eastern philosophy and aesthetics. While far from uncovering any universal monochromatic ideology, this examination provides some background on and appreciation for the creative process of monochromatic painting and a basic understanding of the reaction to the form.
2016-11-07T02:12:41ZSuperannuation and ideology : the search for an effective policy for the aged in New Zealand, 1974-1984Field, Markhttp://hdl.handle.net/10523/61032015-12-07T13:02:35Z2015-12-07T02:39:07ZSuperannuation and ideology : the search for an effective policy for the aged in New Zealand, 1974-1984
1987
Field, Mark
The development of a superannuation policy in New Zealand since 1970 has been the result of a search for effectiveness in an area of large Government spending on welfare. The positions developed by the two major political parties has been pragmatic dictated by economic concerns and by political moves. For the Labour Party the passage of the 1938 Social Security Act had, in part, achieved the historical goal of their movement. In the post war era this led to a pragmatic approach to welfare based on the prevailing economic and social conditions. This is also true of the National Party; it had adopted the conventional wisdom of social security in an age of consensus politics. In the last fifteen years the debate over welfare has been one over a search for efficiency in a time of economic trouble. The issue has been whether the accepted principles of social security are still applicable now: can the state continue to fund large scale and expensive welfare measures out of general revenue? In the light of current economic trends this does not appear possible, then again it would be impossible for the state to give up the concept of social security without threatening its very existence. The debate is about the role of the state in the life of the individual. Today that role is firmly entrenched in providing for the welfare of the citizen. At present there is still unanimity about the need to maintain and improve welfare provisions, but now the real argument is about the best way to achieve these objectives. The debate over superannuation has been about achieving an adequate standard of living for our elderly citizens. Whether this has been achieved is open to dispute. At present new views are being expressed over the efficacy of our existing provisions. It is a change of direction and a reassessment of ideas about the role of the state. The state must remain open and receptive to these ideas in the future to ensure that an equitable society is maintained.
2015-12-07T02:39:07ZNotocene stratigraphy of the Fletcher Creek and Inangahua Junction areas, North WestlandLindqvist, Jon K.http://hdl.handle.net/10523/60002015-10-27T13:02:24Z2015-10-26T22:34:10ZNotocene stratigraphy of the Fletcher Creek and Inangahua Junction areas, North Westland
1972
Lindqvist, Jon K.
In the Inangahua and Fletcher Creek areas, North Westland, Greenland Group greywackes and argillites, into which the Tuhua Group granitic rocks have intruded, are unconformably overlain by lower Tertiary to lower Pleistocene transgressive and regressive sediments. Several reference sections in the Tertiary strata have been measured, of which the thickest totals over 1000 m, and is subdivided into the Brunner Formation (coal measures): Island Formation; sandstone and algal limestone and the Kaiata Formation, mudstone, interpretted as a transgressive sequence. The Cobden formation, unconformably lapping onto the Kaiata Formation is delimited at its base by a breccia, deposited during Whaingaroan basin warping and basement faulting, and at its top by a glauconitic phosphatic richly fossiliferous horizon. The regressive sequence is represented by the Inangahua Formation of graded bedded foraminiferal limestones, sandstones and silts conformably overlain by coal measures in Fletcher Creek. Overlying the coal measures is a thin sequence of fossiliferous marine strata of possibly Waitotaram age, overlain by Old Man Gravels deposited at the beginning of the Kaikoura Orogeny. Calcareous Algae and a Teredenit are described in detail.
2015-10-26T22:34:10ZWaiata whakamaumahara ki ngā kaiherehere nō Taranaki i Ōtepoti i tērā rautau kua pahemoTaylor, Roberthttp://hdl.handle.net/10523/56462015-05-01T14:02:16Z2015-04-30T21:03:04ZWaiata whakamaumahara ki ngā kaiherehere nō Taranaki i Ōtepoti i tērā rautau kua pahemo
1997
Taylor, Robert
Mō ngā whakaritenga o te MAOR 490 He Raukura
2015-04-30T21:03:04ZMineral dressing and gold extraction of Blackwater Mines (Reefton) Ltd. N.Z.Hutton, Gerald Phttp://hdl.handle.net/10523/54462015-01-28T22:30:23Z2015-01-28T22:28:12ZMineral dressing and gold extraction of Blackwater Mines (Reefton) Ltd. N.Z.
1947
Hutton, Gerald P
In the Past, only a brief outline of the Mill has been published – Chem. Eng. Min. Mag. – Nov. 1939 – and this investigation has been the more interesting, not only on account of the efficient manner in which the gold is extracted, but also due to the long and varied history of the Mine. [-- extracted from Acknowledgement]
Interloan of Geology theses must first be approved by the Geology Department.
2015-01-28T22:28:12ZAssisted Polish migrants to Otago: The 1870sBailey, Mark Whttp://hdl.handle.net/10523/54332015-04-28T09:35:18Z2015-01-21T20:21:38ZAssisted Polish migrants to Otago: The 1870s
2000
Bailey, Mark W
Polish culture is imagined as plant growth on a particular land. Migrant Poles were uprooted from their native soil and somehow brought relics of their culture with them as baggage, that, during the act of settlement, was left to moulder in storage, becoming slowly forgotten. The baggage was irrelevant to these Adams and Eves as they laboured as peasant pioneers to provide for the family dynasties they generated. These families were swallowed or assimilated by the dominant Anglo-Celtic culture to eventually become New Zealanders. Historians, genealogists and new waves of Polish migrants are rescuing the cultural baggage, from old tumble-down sheds, so that the descendants can reclaim their birthright. This story, using imagery of baggage, does not fit my experience of descent from Polish migrants to Taranaki. In this essay, I aim to tell a story of the 1870s Polish migrants to Otago that is consonant with my experience and with recent New Zealand historiography. [excerpt from Introduction]
2015-01-21T20:21:38Z'A silent testimony' : St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Orphanage for Girls, South DunedinMcLeod, Billie Dhttp://hdl.handle.net/10523/52442015-04-28T09:50:37Z2014-11-19T04:17:03Z'A silent testimony' : St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Orphanage for Girls, South Dunedin
1992
McLeod, Billie D
The purpose of this study is to place the work of the sisters at St Vincent's in Dunedin within the context of the work of their Order. Statistics for the period demonstrate why the Order was in this vanguard of social service - and why the Bishop of Dunedin chose this particular order for the task of caring for the girls here. Orphans and orphanage are emotive words, conjuring pictures of beaten, half-starved, unloved and ragged waifs, exploited by harsh authoritarians, placed at the bottom of the heap of society, destined to inherit the sins of their often unknown fathers and a bleak future of poverty and crime in their adult world. However the level of disadvantage of the Dunedin orphans of St Vincent's compared with that of other children from working class origins, is questionable. As children they enjoyed security, stability and comfort and their social status as young working women compared with that of many of their mothers, demonstrates a significant upward social mobility.
The success of this Catholic Community contributes to a later debate between the advantages of institutional life for orphans and the practice of boarding them out to private homes. The children and the reasons for admission to the care of the Sisters provide a valuable glimpse into the interlinear history of Dunedin at the turn of the century.
[Extract from Introduction]
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